Domestic Secret Political Policemen Complain to Pravda That They're Not Allowed To Write Conflation Reports Anymore. Boo Hoo.

Fusion Center Employee Expresses Frustration.

American Pravda reports with wailing and gnashing of teeth that "Homeland Security Department curtails home-grown terror analysis."

The Department of Homeland Security has stepped back for the past two years from conducting its own intelligence and analysis of home-grown extremism, according to current and former department officials, even though law enforcement and civil rights experts have warned of rising extremist threats.

Get that? "Civil Rights experts"? Of course they're talking mostly about the Southern Preposterous Lie Center.

The department has cut the number of personnel studying domestic terrorism unrelated to Islam, canceled numerous state and local law enforcement briefings, and held up dissemination of nearly a dozen reports on extremist groups, the officials and others said.

The decision to reduce the department’s role was provoked by conservative criticism of an intelligence report on “Rightwing Extremism” issued four months into the Obama administration, the officials said. The report warned that the poor economy and Obama’s election could stir “violent radicalization,” but it was pilloried as an attack on conservative ideologies, including opponents of abortion and immigration.

The report represented what I called "The SPLCization of Law Enforcement in the 21st Century: Conflation, moral panic and the 'Narrative of 1995.'" It was rightly denounced and reluctantly withdrawn when the victims of its conflationist lies object. Even afterward, though, SPLC and others tried to rehabilitate it every time there was an incident that they felt strengthened their broad-brush tarring of everyone they disagreed with as a "domestic terrorist."

Pravda continues:

In the two years since, the officials said, the analytical unit that produced that report has been effectively eviscerated. Much of its work — including a digest of domestic terror incidents and the distribution of definitions for terms such as “white supremacist” and “Christian Identity” — has been blocked.

Multiple current and former law enforcement officials who have regularly viewed DHS analyses said the department had not reported in depth on any domestic extremist groups since 2009.

“Strategic bulletins have been minimal, since that incident,” said Mike Sena, an intelligence official in California who presides over the National Fusion Center Association, a group of 72 federally chartered institutions in which state, local and federal officials share sensitive information. “Having analytical staff, to educate line officers on the extremists, is critical.…This is definitely one area” where more effort is warranted by DHS.

Similar frustration was expressed in interviews with current and former officials at fusion centers in Missouri, Virginia and Tennessee. Daryl Johnson, formerly the senior domestic terrorism analyst at DHS and a principal author of the disputed report, confirmed in an interview that he left in frustration last year after his office was “gutted” in response to complaints.

“Other reports written by DHS about Muslim extremists … got through without any major problems,” Johnson said. “Ours went through endless reviews and edits, and nothing came out.”

Boo Hoo. The domestic secret poltical policeman screws up and writes a factually-challenged report that has bad blow-back on his bosses and now he complains that he couldn't write another. Pravda continues:

The threat of Islamic-related terrorism in the United States has by all accounts captured the most attention and resources at DHS since it was formed in 2002. But a study conducted for the department last October concluded that a majority of the 86 major foiled and executed terrorist plots in the United States from 1999 to 2009 were unrelated to al-Qaeda and allied movements.

“Do not overlook other types of terrorist groups,” the report warned, noting that five purely domestic groups had considered using weapons of mass destruction in that period. Similar warnings have been issued by the two principal non-government groups that track domestic terrorism: the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.

Oh, my! Whatever would we do without the professional liars of SPLC and ADL?

An annual tally by the latter group of what it calls “Terror From the Right” listed 13 major incidents and arrests last year, nearly double the annual number in previous years; the group also reported the number of hate groups had topped 1,000 in 2010, for the first time in at least two decades.


The face that launched a discredited report. Daryl Johnson, former ATF secret political policeman and cry-baby.

Citing the complaints that Johnson first made in an SPLC quarterly, the group’s president, J. Richard Cohen, wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano this week requesting a reassessment of resources devoted to “the threat of non-Islamic domestic terrorism.”

Actually, as SPLC crows:

The Post story was sparked by an explosive interview by the Southern Poverty Law Center of Daryl Johnson, who was DHS lead analyst of non-Islamic domestic terrorism until quitting in frustration last year.

Here is the "explosive" interview.

. . . DHS’s caution or avoidance, as its critics claim, may partly stem from worries that aggressive intelligence operations could be seen as civil liberties violations. A DHS official explained that “unlike international terrorism, there are no designated domestic terrorist groups. Subsequently, all the legal actions of an identified extremist group leading up to an act of violence are constitutionally protected and not reported on by DHS.”

Well thank you Mr. DHS man! Got that? "(T)here are no designated domestic terrorist groups. Subsequently, all the legal actions of an identified extremist group leading up to an act of violence are constitutionally protected."

Not that the Department of Political Pre-Crime is happy about that:

. . . David Hawtin, who retired last month as a domestic terrorism analyst at the Tennessee Fusion Center, said “the pendulum has swung to a point where we are missing nodes of connection because there is no obvious crime on the front end.”

What is obvious is the real motivation for the story:

Multiple briefings for state and local officials on extremist groups such as the sovereign citizens movement — composed of those who reject American legal supremacy — were also blocked, according to internal DHS messages.

Two things about this statement. First, WHO gives many of these briefings? Why SPLC of course. Any reduction in such briefings cuts into SPLC's lucrative federal trough gluttony. Is this a motive for both the interview and the Pravda article? You bet your ass it is.

Second, even if it was true, it evidently is no longer. Remember this post? "Your tax dollars at work. Southern Preposterous Lie Center indoctrinating DOJ personnel in the 'Narrative of 1995.' My press pass, please.

That briefing is happening today, right now as I write this. And what of my requests, by email and phone, for a press pass to attend that august event? Why Ms. Amanda Warford neither answered my email nor phone messages. I wonder what they're scared of? An old fat man with a cane?